Makrai Rules

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Detailed information and the complete text can be found at [ext] http://dnc.yogar.hu/go/rules.html.

This ruleset was created with three objectives in mind:

It uses area scoring, which allows life and death to be simply played out. It uses basic ko, which allows draw on repetition, and avoids superko inconveniences and anomalies. This combination leaves the following problems open:

Chinese rules practically handle these problems by exceptional rulings (precedents). But since this set is meant to be logical, two new rules were created to address them:

These two rules attempt to grab the human logic behind the traditional rulings. They rarely need to be actually applied, unless the opponent behaves abusively (the above tactics are traditionally considered unacceptable - but usually without a logical explanation). Their purpose is to make the rules complete, usable in various environments and in computer tree searches.


This is a copy of the living page "Makrai Rules" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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